A young artist from Alicante, Christian Franco Miguel Hernández University in Altea (1971-2003), a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, died in an accident. tragic traffic accident when his work began to be valued among gallery owners and other colleagues, when life opened up before him A few more than thirty years full of projects and facts.
roman de la calleAn outstanding art critic and theorist, he described the structures and color spaces of his paintings as clearly made, so that our eyes meet on his acrylics, canvases where intense blues are one of the characteristic signs of his style of interpreting reality. “The ability of colors to make sense of everything continues to amaze me.” A fact that Christian traces based on himself study masters of abstraction and grasp the challenges that some, like Salvador Soria, whom he admires, allow him a moment.
It is as necessary as it is sad to remember Christian Franco twenty years after his farewell. Her mother, carmen solerIt was in the catalog published by the Alicante City Council. Anthology dedicated to him in 2005curated by Pedro Nuno de la Rosa, some heartfelt words to his other son, Xavi: “As he went, he came to life without asking permission.” The memory of a young person who left them suddenly and unintentionally on the way to the funeral home, words that are not exempt from the value they mean at that moment.
But remembering Christian is also imperative because the artist, the young boy, who continue to live for his parents, brother, relatives and friends; They know it exists because they imagine it lying in his studio thinking about the impact of his work, and he doesn’t want to let go of those memories, the good memories of happy times, even though they’ve been through so much pain.
New York was a chimera For the Christian who wants to breathe in the bohemian vibe of the village and visit a city where he would love to live to see one of his favorite singers live in legendary venues like What?, Gaslight or The Bitter End. Maybe he’d bump into Bob Dylan on one of these. A Dylan in one of his songs, Open the door, Homer.one of those famous basement bands tree stump save with Music band With Robbie Robertson (translating Dylan is always complicated) she said something like, “Make sure all memories don’t fade, water them all the time because you won’t be able to relive them anymore.”
And that’s what a group of people who love Christian will feel when the candid tribute to him and his work begins, which the Juan Gil-Albert Cultural Institute will celebrate at its headquarters on May 5 at seven o’clock in the afternoon. hand in hand Alfonso Sanchez Luna artist and professor at Altea Faculty of Fine Arts; Quico Torressculptor and painter and Fede Mingot Geamember of Valencian Art Critics Association and the manager of La Decoradora.
Anyone who knew him will remember and think about him again if they don’t keep doing it every day. Yes.
Christian Franco never went to New York, but his work did so some time later. Management promoted by Miguel Valor. It was fair and necessary.